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This claim is contradicted by current U.S. sanctions law and U.S. import data.

• The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control says that, under Executive Order 14066, the import into the United States of Russian-origin crude oil, petroleum, and petroleum products is prohibited.
• The U.S. Energy Information Administration's latest weekly series for U.S. imports from Russia of crude oil shows imports dropping to 0 after March 2022, and the latest 2025-2026 entries are marked not applicable, not active purchases.
• EIA's annual series for U.S. imports from Russia of crude oil and petroleum products shows imports collapsing from 53,779 thousand barrels in 2022 to just 10 thousand barrels in 2023, which is consistent with the import ban and inconsistent with the idea that the U.S. now "has to buy oil from Russia."

So whatever broader geopolitical argument the post is making, the specific statement that the U.S. "has to buy oil from Russia" is factually wrong based on the governing U.S. import ban and federal import statistics.